"Dear Mister Fantasy (email)" (Friday, December 26 2025, Hour 1)

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let me ask you all this question.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're supposed to leave at the Bernie Sanders and Alec
alexandri Cosio COTEXT hundred.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
To do list.

Speaker 4 (00:07):
Putting the radio on is the first thing today, George said.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Steal men every day, please for work, when the sun
comes up, drops a pet to school.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Then Joey is.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
Everything a Jane do all the jerses seven needs no
one that Joe's smile.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
He on the eggs peg.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
Let them be.

Speaker 7 (00:33):
Joe.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Thank you for joining us and letting me be of
service to you. I want to be each and every day,
and thank you for spending Christmas Day with me. If
you did UH and UH and Christmas Eve and all
the times you got to share UH together and convene
in the mornings or the late nights. As you join
us in progress at four three four eight eight two

(00:56):
four to two one seven. That is the tele phone number.
Multitaskers can join in as well to text message, because
I know what mornings are like. Heck, you know I
used to have this tradition. I would send out greeting
cards to email contacts. My weekend has been so busy
and it's only Friday that I've only made it through

(01:20):
the bees in my mailing list. So if you if
you've been in e contact with me, you'll be getting
a greeting card at some point. But it just hasn't
happened yet. It's just been a cacophonous weekend of stuff. Yeah,
I know technically is Wednesday and Thursday, but it's a holiday,
and this day continues that kind of well what are

(01:41):
we doing here? Are we back at work? I mean
there are lots of places back at work? Are you?
There's other people, your competitors might be back at work,
but it's up to you and your customers unless you'd rather.
How did Stephen A. Smith say it so brilliantly in

(02:02):
the opening of the program, Let me ask you all
this question.

Speaker 8 (02:06):
We're supposed to leave at Bernie sand as an aoc.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
No Bernie, no, stephen A not so much there this
but so the hot takes notwithstanding much going on, bombs flying,
verbal and actual, and we'll chronicle it all, will break
it down, We'll tell you what we see in the
evidence locker, and then we will open it up to

(02:33):
you and tell us how the news of the day
is impacting you where you are as you come in
to us. I appreciate all the folks who've reached out
over the past couple of days and been grateful to
hang out with the show a little bit. We're a
little different than everyone else. We're not the same flava.
I don't come in here with the poor tend I

(02:56):
am different. I've learned over the years that I've walked
this face of the earth, that pretending that I'm just
like any other guy, and that I see things that
everyone else sees not so much. So I will share
my perspectives with you. Born and raised of people watching
in the biggest city, in the most bankrupt, corrupt government

(03:20):
in the history of America. And yet she's still there,
and she's about to get herself a communist mayor, and
who knows what will come out the other side. I
live through the first time the New York Stock Exchange
threatened to move out of New York. They may do
it this time, But so much as we now gird

(03:42):
our loins and other parts for the trip into twenty
twenty six, I'm ready for you if you're ready for
it as well. Here along the talk media network, new
places new ears to fill with the common sense I
mean of your Democrat. I'd love to see a whole
bunch of real conservative, family values democrats take their party

(04:08):
back over. Really would make America a much more interesting place.
But I digress. That's for the commentary section of the program.
These are our first things. President Donald Trump announced that
he launched air strikes in northwest Nigeria Christmas night, targeting
ISIS militants accused of killing Christians, calling the operation decisive

(04:31):
and warning further attacks would follow if the violence continues.
Ukraine's President Vladimir Zolensky said yesterday that he had a
very good conversation with President Trump's Special envoy Steve Witkoff
and Jared Kushner. He described the Christmas Day discussion certain

(04:52):
substantive details of the ongoing work and a potential deal
with Russia. Just before Christmas, Zolensky announced that he would
be open to the idea of a demilitarized economic freedom
zone where the Russian troops are However, news now that
Russian forces are appear to be close to being pushed

(05:12):
out of krupp Yanks to northeastern Ukrainian city with only
about a dozen Russian forces, mostly mercenaries. They still use
Hashians to Christmas. NFL games yesterday have drawn some rebuke
from NBA spokespeople, as Christmas Day had traditionally been a

(05:36):
place to find NBA broadcasts for the afternoon after Christmas dinner.
Charles Barkley, broadcaster and Basketball Hall of famers that the
NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games. We used
to have this day to ourselves. A strong storm system
that brought the winds, rain, and some snowfall to California

(05:58):
is expected to ease today. There is still a risk
of high surf. San Francisco reporting waves at twenty five
feet this morning, and there is still bracing four potential
mud slize from the soaked earth. The GDP grew at
four point three percent in the third quarter the US economy,

(06:18):
marking the strongest growth in two years. According to government
data released yesterday. The GDP growth between July and September
far outstripped the forecast of just three percent growth. President
Trump continued to deliver his backhanded Christmas messages. This latest
one on Christmas Day included the sleeze bags that loved

(06:42):
Jeffrey Epstein Merry Christmas to all, including these lees bags,
and gave him bundles of money and went to his
island and then tried to blame your president, Donald J. Trump,
who was actually the first one to drop Epstein in
a truth social post yesterday.

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Bruh, that's buzzed.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.

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heart and brain.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Who's with me?

Speaker 15 (11:13):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.

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Somebody call me a ride.

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Love that guy, Me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
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The college started on a need to know basis, because
you need to know the first thing today.

Speaker 11 (13:17):
But I'm afraid of the Russians.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
I can't sleep at night.

Speaker 10 (13:25):
I'm so afraid of the Russians.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Afraid we've cut fight.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
There's email yesterday after the program, and I appreciated it
because not everyone does what we did yesterday, even you know,
the people who are in the peripheries of media. It
was pre recorded. You know, my family bought into this biz.

(13:55):
When I started it. My wife met me at a
radio event. So not a play Misty for me kind
of thing, no, no, no, no. She had never heard
of the radio station and actually sung me a four
letter aria before it was done. So it was one
of those some of those Christmas Hallmark movies, right, although

(14:15):
it was in July. But she she's known the radio world.
That's why I mean. It was interesting listening to a
piece about one of our great local businesses here in
the valley, here in the Stanton area, McKee Foods. You
may know it as Little Debbie the snack Cake company,

(14:38):
and Little Debbie is the CEO. Now she's Big Debbie.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't know do they make her call her Big Debbie.
Stuart's draft anyway. But the couple that started McKee Foods,
the McKees eb and it's Brenda. I think I'm doing
her name wrong. But Ebie and and Brenda started this company,

(15:05):
and she was in charge of all the production. He
was out there, you know, and it sounded so much
like what my wife and I do. She's conservative, like
trying to pull everything together, don't go, don't run too
fast or go too far. And I'm out there just
barking at the moon. And so spending some Christmas time

(15:27):
together with you on the radio was fun. And I
appreciate these emails that thanked us for being live and
giving some folks a respite from the crazy and even
prepping some folks for the onslaught of family and what
they might be ready to yell at you about maga I.

Speaker 18 (15:51):
Go.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
So this email came in, I thought I appreciated it.
Janice wrote in, I was getting my turkey prepared for
my family coming over, and I appreciated hearing a live
human being coming out of my radio in the morning.
It really was a blessing. I'd never heard your show before,
but I'll be tuning back in if I can. And

(16:13):
I sent her a link to the podcast. I said,
I don't know where you are or what you're listening to.
She hasn't gotten back to me. But some places are
only picking us up for holiday fill ins. You know,
it's okay, you can keep us around. We don't eat
a lot. But Jennis's question was about the story of

(16:33):
these economic freedom zones that President Trump and Steve Witkoff
and Jared Kushner and obviously Marco Rubio. And have you
noticed that the news coverage out of the State Department
has been downplaying Marco Rubio a little bit? You think
they're leaning on the twenty twenty eighth scale. It's much

(16:55):
more you know, Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcough, all these
guys and les Marco Rubio. I think, do you think
somebody got a little like Marco's out there? A lot
sounded like Marco's doing all this. But in any event,
so the proposal weeks and weeks ago was that we

(17:18):
establish a DMZ sort of ekon free zone economic freedom
zone in the area that don Bas and Crimea and
all that area of Ukraine that Russia invaded and they're
clinging to though I'm in the news this morning one

(17:39):
of the northeast cities is about to fall back into
the Ukrainian government officials hands. What has that got to be?

Speaker 18 (17:46):
Like?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean, we complain about our city councilors, you know,
and apologies, this is how my brain works. Sometimes I'm
going through the story and intellectually digging it up in Jena.
I will come back to your email question in just
a moment. But we complain about our grab astic city councilors.

(18:07):
And we look at guys like Gavin Newsom or Karen
Bass in Los Angeles, or Zefod mad Money about to
be sworn in in New York, or even you know,
my classmate Eric Adams for you know, his term as
mayor of New York, or even our small towns like Harrisonburg, Virginia,

(18:27):
and Stanton and Charlottesville, Norfolk, and we and we shake
our heads at you know, oh, the city council's raising
taxes on this, and oh they can't get the trash
collection working, and now they do this special program and
they can't even get the potholes filled. But you imagine

(18:51):
a city that's like, well, the Russian troops are still
here and I wanted to leave it. Oh, some mortars
going off. Maybe they'll leave soon. You know, it's a
wholly different thing. We complain about our stuff loud and
proud as we should as a you know, free American

(19:12):
citizens for now unless FCC chair Crampus gets his way.
But just the abstract of having foreign troops in Stanton, Virginia,
occupying the city and US battling to win it back.

(19:36):
I mean that that's the kind of stuff that you know,
I think about the Battle of Trenton from you know,
two hundred and fifty years ago, an occupation. It's a
whole different mindset you try to conceptualize it, and for
those who have served in theater, you know, when you know,

(19:56):
you know, anyway, back to Jenesi's email, how would it work?
Who would be paying for it? Whose laws would this
place follow? The un We've seen how bad that can go. Joe. Yeah,
you know, I can't argue with you, Janis. I have
said this before and I'll say it again. It's a
weird nuance. I don't like slogans. People who say I

(20:19):
hate the idea of a world government. I hate most
people's idea of what a world government is. And I
will qualify this saying I'd like America, the United States,
to start living under its constitution and declared Bill of Rights.

(20:40):
And if we can prove we can do that, maybe
that wouldn't be such a bad government for the planet.
But everything else sucks, and I wouldn't want global government
backed by anything other than our Bill of Rights. So
if I had my druthers, it would be let's have

(21:04):
the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution dictate what
goes on in this free economic zone, and we who knows,
we might even get a great example of what happens
if free market economics is applied. They wouldn't like that
at the Food and Drug Administration and the EPA, and

(21:28):
oh no, you don't want to. We better not do that,
because if there is economic freedom there, we'll find out
how bad our economy is really fast. But yeah, that
is that. One of the devils in this detail is
who governs this zone, who lives there? Does anyone live there?
Is it just like the downtown mall in your town?

(21:49):
Is it like a shopping mall or is it a
business park or is it like Washington DC. Oh, that's
a bad idea.

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(24:26):
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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(24:50):
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I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never

(25:25):
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law

(25:46):
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
dot SSA dot gov.

Speaker 14 (25:55):
Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.

Speaker 21 (25:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.

Speaker 15 (26:00):
And now a speech.

Speaker 11 (26:02):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Who's with me?

Speaker 13 (26:08):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
Somebody call me a ride.

Speaker 14 (26:15):
Love that guy, me too.

Speaker 20 (26:16):
Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
it's time to go home.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Buzz driving is drunk driving.

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costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.

(26:44):
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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Things you can do.

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Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
protection agency.

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Lucky.

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Speaker 1 (28:22):
Such as the title of an email that just came
in during the break, and it starts as Joe, I
know your affinity for pop culture references in your analysis,
and I appreciate it. It makes it easier to grasp concepts.
Can you find the clip from the old sitcom Cheers

(28:46):
where Fraser looks at Norman says what color is the
sky in your world? I felt that way listening to
you talk about the potential governance of this economic free
zone bill of Rights. I appreciate that you at least
said you'd like it if the United States lived by
its Bill of Rights first, but I had to chuckle

(29:08):
at the idea of allowing some place to have a
free market economy and showing up the World Economic Forum
what it would look like. You don't think that would
ever be allowed to happen, would you, Joe Terrence? I
appreciate the email, and I appreciate the well, what's obviously
a thorough grasping of what we do here and calling

(29:32):
me mister fantasy. That's heavy stuff there, you know, but
it isn't fantasy. It would be fantasy to me if
we had relegated the US Constitution and the Bill of
Rights to the Smithsonian Museum for a display on the

(29:52):
founding of America. And believe me, as we go through
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of
American independence, there will be those who suggest that America
has outgrown its eighteenth century roots. I've got him here.

(30:13):
Notable people, people you've seen on television, mostly because they
have good pr people people like Larry Sabado from the
University of Virginia Center for Getting Larry Sabado mentioned in
the mainstream media. Well, I mean, technically it's called the
Center for Politics, but mostly it's there to get Larry
mentioned on TV. He wrote a whole book. Gosh, now

(30:36):
coming up on twenty years now. Twenty years ago, he
published a book, and I had the chance to interview
him about it, and funny enough, he stopped doing local
radio interviews right after I did this interview with him,
in which the book was titled The Case for a
New Constitution. And I said, so, Larry, let's start with

(30:57):
what's the matter with the old one? And he wristled
at such hot that you you're challenging the great and
powerful oz cowardly lion, and and so I uh. But
his he did deign to try to educate my poor
adult cranium with his fact that we had grown so

(31:19):
large where we really should be four, if not six,
separate countries living under an article of confederation. And I said,
you do know the articles of confederation failed pretty badly.
He said, well, that's because we let them fail. Look
at the European Union. And I said, you really want
me to do that? And this was twenty Like I said,
it was twenty years ago. The European Union had not

(31:42):
exposed itself to be the hot pile of steaming. Well,
whatever might be steaming on your plate this morning, that
you is not very appetizing. Let me get to you.
But again, Terrence, thank you for the email. Four three,
four eight eight two four to two one seven. Good
morning on the air with Joe. First thing this morning,
who's this?

Speaker 21 (32:03):
Good morning to Merry Christmas, to you.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Merry Christmas, Joel. How are you doing in Florida.

Speaker 21 (32:08):
I'm good, I'm good. I'm still plugging away but anyway,
I wanted to say this. We have so many gifts
in America. And I had to chuckle when you're talking
about Larry as Sabado because everything that he was trying
to change or put into you said, like six different confederations.

(32:35):
Just him being able to say that is part of
and think that as part of what our founding fathers
fought for.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Right Because any of you, if you suggest that in Tehran, uh,
that's the last anyone's going to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (32:50):
I mean I I went to church yesterday. I know
I was sent you that picture and then you know
you're responding. You said it's beautiful, and I wanted to go. Now,
how many places in the world they go, oh, well, wow,
a Christian church. But that doesn't mean you're safe. That
doesn't mean you're And we've had our problems here with

(33:12):
you know, crazy people and fanatics.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
And you see that what was the country? The news
story isn't sitting right in front of me, but there
was that Nigeria where they where they burned down the
Christmas No on Nigeria is where Trump's dropped a bunch
of bombers.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
France?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Was it France?

Speaker 21 (33:29):
France?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Or Germany where they burned down the Christmas tree right
in front of the Christmas Christians. No, it was it
was in Palestine. It was in the Gaza, it was
in the occupied but there was a Christian church with
a big old Christmas tree in front of it, and
some some you know, Islamists, some Jihadis, came in there,

(33:52):
burned the Christmas tree down, burned the Nativity scene. And
uh and and then you say uh. And I read
the story. I had to think of this babylon be
you know the satire news site that a couple of
weeks ago they published a story, joke story obviously that
the title of it was research shows Islamo Phobia grows

(34:15):
when Islamics kill Christians. And I said, you know, well,
all right, you know, yeah, Islamo phobia does start to
increase the more Christians get killed by Islamic terrorism. But
that's that's what happens, is they do this and nobody.
You know, It's funny because you and me, if Donald
Trump does something that a lot of people don't like,

(34:38):
they'll they'll immediately approach somebody like me, especially a public
facing person. But I'm sure you have friends that would
come up to you and say, what do you say,
do you denounce Donald Trump? Now? Do you denounce him?
How come nobody goes to the head of care or
you know all these mosques in your city and say
do you denounce what they just did? Because get a

(35:00):
phone call saying, oh, you know I have friends who
are Muslims or I have listeners who are Muslims. Are like,
that's not us. I'm like, then come out and denounce it,
because you know what happens when you denounce these Islamists.
They kill you. That's what's happened.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
The guy in Australia, the head of the Caliphate, has
called for his murder because he stopped the killing of Jews.
This is what We're trying to weed out the crazy.
And I don't know if we can do it because
the folks who aren't crazy, who just want to live

(35:37):
in the United States and practice their religion and not
bother anyone else about theirs, they're scared of dying. And
we have to thou shalt not murder. We have to
punish these people with the full weight and power of justice.

Speaker 21 (35:57):
And Joe, what I was going to say too, is
when I was sitting in church, and and and and
knowing the day that you know we're worshiping as Jesus
coming into the earth and being born, that if this
were as you were saying, another country could be No,
it's it's Kim John Ul you know, being born, and

(36:20):
and we have to worship him. And then if when
when he dies, another successor of the family is going
to take over, it's and which is which is totally
which is totally not what we think about. We we
know we have proven that Christ is that that came
to this earth. I mean, there's if people want to

(36:40):
go that that he's not here. He was here, and
he still is here, but he's in a different form.
He's in the Holy Spirit. And I'm sitting there and
and and I had like at a tear come down
my eye go because where in the world we where
in the world can we do this? And even in
Europe now people are afraid. I saw that they people

(37:00):
they're going to church and these these Muslims Islamis go
in they beheaded Jesus like statue that are five hundred
and four hundred and six hundred years old, that survived
World War one and World War two, and and and
like you said, if we say anything or do anything,
they're gonna come after you, and they're gonna and they're

(37:21):
gonna try to disrupt our way of life. I mean,
it's happening in Michigan, it's happening in Texas, happening in Illinois,
in New York, I mean, look at who they elected
in New York City.

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I've got a clip. We're coming up on a break.
I'll play it in the next segment out of Dearborn.
I know that you're thinking of moving to Dearborn to
do medical Uh there, I know it's one of your
what sounds, It's it's in your top five list right
to all the places you want to move to relocation. Yeah,
they're they're gonna need some doctors soon. But you have

(37:53):
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Here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas, we got
to get kiss.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
So when murder is staring you in the face, what
do you do? I have dear friends in law enforcement
who reinforce the statement when seconds matter, law enforcement is
minutes away, and that's not a rebuke. We don't want

(44:53):
a society where you have a police officer standing over
you all the time? Do you.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
So?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
A fella and I don't know his background, but he
was doing some on the scene reporting as riots were
going along. It's the guy's name is Eli Yakobe, I believe,
a Jewish young man. And there was a protest going

(45:27):
on in Dearborn, Michigan, because well it's Dearborn Michigan, and
what the hell else are you going to do? But
it's a bunch of folks along the main drag in
Dearborn protesting. I guess the existence of the United States.
And here is what Eli was. What was what Eli

(45:52):
recorded on the streets. This is to follow up what
Joel was talking about.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I have a question for you guys.

Speaker 24 (46:02):
Have America word again to war with someone with a
country like Iraq. Who would you, guys, defend America or Iraq?

Speaker 3 (46:07):
That's not permissible for us. About the same time, who
would defend we asked much we went.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
To about our brothers in Iraq. That's the only way.

Speaker 24 (46:15):
So you want to defend America, we went in America.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
And you know, first and foremost, having been in the
mob here in Charlottesville and confronted with a young man.
There's a if you go to the if you go
to my Facebook page, somewhere, there's a clip to this
a screen cap of the Roanoke Times from August thirteenth

(46:51):
of twenty seventeen, the day after the riots. It's a
photograph of your humble host in a shouting match with
a young man from Black Lives Matter, who, prior to
the verbal part of the altercation, had bumped into me
as he was chasing the white Nazi grab assers down

(47:15):
the street and I was covering it. He bumped into me.
I was like, hey, sorry, dude, and he turned on me.
He turned on me. He started yelling and screaming about
how I was a racist, And I asked him how
he knew that. He said, because I was white. He said,
oh ah, just it hurts when you hear it's like
getting brain freeze. So you know who I am simply

(47:40):
by the color of my skin, and I'm the racist.
The young man was bigger than me and younger than me.
Yet after a bit of this, my fist started to clench.
The kid who grew up in Queens, New.

Speaker 19 (47:54):
York was about to the level of I've heads all
I can stands, and I can't stand them are And
if I had a can of spandich, I would have
downed it and gone Popeye in his ass.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
And we were about to go when Hawk Newsom. You
know Hawk because he's shown up in the news a lot.
He's wavered back and forth. But I'll tell you something.
In my interactions with Hawk Knewsome, the head of Black
Lives Matter in New York, he's always been a thoughtful fellow.
I haven't talked to him in a few years, and
it seems like he's decided keeping his job with Black

(48:28):
Lives Matter means just pitching the party line rather than
thinking through all of it. He interceded with me and
this young fella before we had a chance to start
throwing blows. He said, no, no, no, not him. He's cool.

(48:51):
And he knew that only because I had taken time
to get to know this guy. And I was like, oh,
I'll find out what they had. A Black Lives Matter
thinks about things, and we were remarkably similar on a
lot of things. I bring this up because the young
fellow later ran into me on one of the side
streets of Charlottesville. It was before the state troopers were

(49:13):
killed or the protester was killed. This was that kind
of weird period afterwards where every international news agency was
calling me saying, hey, you got ten minutes for the BBC,
pardon me. And so he bumped into me and he said, sir,
I'm really sorry. Hawk told me about you, and I

(49:36):
really didn't. I didn't know. It's just we were all
and I was struck by how different his bearing was.
And I hear that in this crowd, because the fellow
that ELI is talking to at one point is trying
to think through something and then the crowd starts shouting.

(49:57):
He's like, yeah, yeah, that was right. We're gonna We're
gonna bomb us a because we're four. It was he
was having a moment of like, no, no, we don't
go to war, and they're like, and then the mob,
the mob mentality. You can hear it in in the
young fellow just for a moment there. And I'm just
trying to find the good in people the same times.

(50:23):
That's the only way.

Speaker 24 (50:24):
So you want to defend America.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
America, that's mob think, that's mob think right there. The
kid actually was trying to nuance an argument as much
as possible in one of these dearborn Michigan things, and
then all of the guys around it were like, yeah,
nor right. The kid in Charlottesville, to finish the story,
was an engineering student at Columbia University Ivy League engineering student,

(50:51):
and they said, do me a favor. They said, you're
going to make more change in the world by finishing
your degree and being the best damn engineer any ever seen.
And they said, all these necklace wonders that you were
chasing down the street aren't going to amount to anything
except maybe getting a job laying brick at a project

(51:13):
you help design. I said, you know, just He's like,
I know, I was just caught up in the moment
please remember this for that. I don't. I've never run
into him in the eight years interceding, but I hope
he took my advice. Maybe he's listening to us this

(51:33):
morning in Greenwich where he's got a big house and
he and his wife have changed the world, and he's
got old school Greenwich neighbors going it got the neighborhood, marge.
But you know, he's a world class engineer, building amazing
things for people to do amazing things inside of. But
you hear what the mob does. Would you defend.

Speaker 24 (52:00):
We were as we were brothers.

Speaker 18 (52:03):
That's the only way.

Speaker 24 (52:04):
So you want to defend America, America.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
On the streets, on the streets of a country that
allows him to say that, Because if he was in Baghdad,
or if he was in Kandahar or Tehran and he
was asked, would you support Iran or the United States?
And he said the United States, that's the last you

(52:29):
would ever see of the young fellow. And that's the
part that's bothersome the most about this is the terrorism
that's using the very essence of what makes this country
special as a weapon against us. And that's what we
have to grapple with fighting back against.

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